Sudanese style mosques in northern Côte d’Ivoire

Earthen walls bristling with projecting timbers, pyramid-like minarets and buttresses topped by pottery or ostrich eggs mark the Sudanese-style mosques of northern Côte d'Ivoire. Eight of them, at Kong, Tengréla, Samatiguila and neighbouring towns, carry south a building style born around Djenné in the Mali Empire and spread by Muslim traders along the trans-Saharan routes. The best preserved of some twenty survivors, they were inscribed by UNESCO in 2021.